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EUROPEAN PUPILS - CLOSER TOGETHER

" EUROPEAN PUPILS - CLOSER TOGETHER" with an intercultural magazine
We intend to set up an inter-cultural discussion through the media. This will be based on three axes:
INTER-CULTURAL EXCHANGE:
By exchanging articles about school life, we will discover alternative ways of doing things and different points of view.
EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP:
By carrying out surveys for the magazine’s shared section, we will identify what pupils from the different participating schools have in common and what differs them.
DEVELOPING ICT SKILLS TO STRENGTHEN BOTH ICT AND LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Using ICT to carry out surveys, exchange articles/information and lay out the magazine, communicating through a common language.
To promote the Comenius project to the local communities and to a wider audience by surveying parents and grandparents of our pupils.
Our pupils will have a focus and be aware of their own identity/roots and develop knowledge and respect of other European countries and their traditions/cultures.
This project will also involve children with learning/behavioural difficulties and give them a focus and sense of achievement.

EUROPEAN PUPILS - CLOSER TOGETHER

" EUROPEAN PUPILS - CLOSER TOGETHER" with an intercultural magazine
We intend to set up an inter-cultural discussion through the media. This will be based on three axes:
INTER-CULTURAL EXCHANGE:
By exchanging articles about school life, we will discover alternative ways of doing things and different points of view.
EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP:
By carrying out surveys for the magazine’s shared section, we will identify what pupils from the different participating schools have in common and what differs them.
DEVELOPING ICT SKILLS TO STRENGTHEN BOTH ICT AND LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Using ICT to carry out surveys, exchange articles/information and lay out the magazine, communicating through a common language.
To promote the Comenius project to the local communities and to a wider audience by surveying parents and grandparents of our pupils.
Our pupils will have a focus and be aware of their own identity/roots and develop knowledge and respect of other European countries and their traditions/cultures.
This project will also involve children with learning/behavioural difficulties and give them a focus and sense of achievement.

Logo of the project

A flower every petal of which represents a partner of the project and the heart of which represents Europe.
France has created the final logo from petals creatd by each school. This logo is on the cover of our final common magazine.

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Blog on the internet

The Danish coordinators were responsible for making a blog for this project.
On this blog Work was uploaded in the first year of the project. From the beginning of the second year we shared a dropboxfolder which was linked to from the blog. All partners were responsible for uploading their own work.
The link for the blog is
http://europeanpupils-closertogether.blogspot.dk/

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Final magazine

An on-line magazine which speaks about the life of the children in Europe through topics worked throughout 2 years of partnership:
- Landmarks of the9 involved countries
- Traditional recipes
- Playground games played on 3 generations
- What makes children happy
-Nursery rhymes and traditional dances
- A typical school day
- Our roots and the migrations on 3 generations.
The magazine was printed and disseminated.

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What Makes Children Happy?

During the two year project each country made a PowerPoint presentation about what makes the children in our respective countries happy. The results were disseminated to each of the partner countries and these were shown and discussed with the pupils - looking at the similarities and differences of what children do in their spare time and what makes them happy.

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Traditional Recipes

During the two year project, each partner wrote about and took pictures of a 'starter, a 'main course' and a 'dessert' of a typical meal from their respective countries. Most of the schools actually made these recipes involving the children. These recipes were then shared via email and some countries made some of the meals from the partner countries.

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Where I live

September/ocotber 2012 : Pupils , with the help of teachers, the ICT trainer and some English speaking parents, prepared a ppt presentation in French and in English with pictures and sounds which present to the partners their school, the village, the departement of Ardeche and their country, France. Artistic activities were done for the presentation of the departement.

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Traditionnal recipes

In November, 2012, the pupils, by means of the professors and the parents realized a French traditional meal: soup of pumpkin of the sweet chestnut, the gratin dauphinois and Beef in carrots, chocolate fondant. The pupils took photos and realized a digital document.

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Playground games

In January, 2013: the pupils investigated with their parents and grandparents to know which playground games were practised on three generations. The more popular games were chosen and presented by slide shows and videos, rules were written so that all the partners can test them.

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Comenius party

In June, 2013: uUe an evening of presentation to the parents, the elected representatives and local media of the choreography, as well as an exhibition of the works in connection with the project Comenius realized all year round, were a good way to celebrate and to communicate our Comenius project to the whole local community.

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Choreographic creation : From the war to the European Union

"From the war to the European Union" : Pupils and teachers realized a choreographic creation of contemporary dance on the subject of the construction of the European Union. It was presented to the theater of Privas during the academic action "Classes which danse" on 2013/05/16.

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Penpals with Denmark and Italy

Penpals France / Denmark in English : Exchanges of letters and 2 Skype meetings
- march : Pupils introduced themselve and exchanged informations about them in English.
- june : Pupils had prepared in English some riddles on international celebrities.
Penpals France / Italy in French : Pupils exchanged letters, poems and works around the story "Peter and the wolf

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Comenius meal at the canteen

Comenius meal at the middle school canteen.
The middle school pupils translated from English to French the recipes of our partners and the cooker of the canteen prepare a Comenius meal for all the pupils and teachers who have lunch at the canteen.

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Nursery rhymes

Pupils learned 2 French songs and researched in class on the origins of the nursery rhymes. They also realized a recording and a Powerpoint to present the nursery rhymes in French with the translation in English.

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Our roots

Pupils and their family completed a survey about their roots and the reasons of migration.
Results of the survey were analysed and this information was placed on a world map for the children to see the diversity of their own community.

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The website of the school

In June 2013 and 2014, we put on the Web site of the school:
- The digital works realized by the pupils for the project Comenius
- The video of the choreography presented to the theater of Privas
- The photos of the mascot of the school during the various mobilities in the partner countries
- The photos of the different events in link with the project : cooking day, educational trip
- A part of the works exchanged with penpals
Word pass to access to the site : platanes

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Dissemination of the project

Articles in the local newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré
Article in the newspaper of the DSDEN
2 special editions of the newspaper of the school Le Bavard (The Chatterbox) distributed to families and sold in the village.

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Traditional Recipes

Croatian team was in charge of a topic 'Traditional recipes'. Our task was to collect the recipes for appetizers, main dish and desserts from all the partner countries. We exchanged the recipes via e-mail or during the mobilities and we also tried out some of them; for example our pupils prepared traditional Danish pastry, Italian lasagne,etc.. during the 'Italian Day, Danish Day', etc.. , celebrated at our school.
The final result were 4 pages for the Madmagz magazine.

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1st year activities and mobilities

Link to the Project blog and to the online magazine-1st y, Presentations of the partner countries, videos about Christmas activities, Products and results of the tasks: "Historical Landmarks"-"Traditional recipes"-"Traditional playground games"-"What makes children happy in everyday life"-Comenius Christmas week-Final show with the Comenius Assistant.
Reports of the national and transnational mobilities: 1st mobility in Denmark-2nd mobility in Croatia-3rd mobility in Italy-4th mobility in Spain

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2nd year activities and mobilities

Video about the final exhibition, Products and results of the tasks: "Nursery Rhimes"-"Typical school day"-"Traditional Dances"-"Our Roots"-
Comenius Logo Contest-Comenius Christmas Week and Comenius Final Week.
Reports of the transnational mobilities: 5th mobility in Northern Ireland-6th mobility in Bulgaria-7th mobility in Poland-8th mobility in Turkey-9th mobility in France.

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Traditional Recipes

Pupils together with teachers prepared the ppt presentation about traditional recipes with starter: Polish Vegetable Salad. Main course: "Potato Cake". Dessert: " Angel's wings". In the recipes we incluided: ingredients and utensils and how to make it.

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Playground activities (Street Games)

We did a survey about the traditional games which our grandparents, parents played and the games which the children play nowaday. Than we analized the survey and decided to take the most common Polish Street Games to make the PPT presentatoin called " Street Games in Poland"

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What makes children happy?

We made a survey about What makes our children happy and the results were: pre-school children: spend time with their family, play games with friends, animals make them happy as well. Older children said: playing with friends, hang out with friends, being with friends, singing, listening to music, being with my family, school celebrations, to dance flamenco, drawing, painting, cutting, going to the cinema with friends, preparing and eating food, read books. Next we prepared PPT

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Dissemination of the Project

in September 2012 on the bulletin board located in the main lobby of the school newspaper suspended disseminating the project, which is a specially appointed group of students and teachers regularly update

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Traditional Dances

The students of class IV preparing for the implementation of the next task learned to National Dance "Polonaise", schoolgirls from class Va and in the framework of the project danced "Krakowiak" while students of Class III "Polka" all the dances were presented at the meeting of partners in Poland.

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Partner's meeting in Poland

In March 2014 partners meeting was held in Poland. On the day of the visit the school held solemn appeal in the presence of a representative of the Department of Education, parents, students and school staff. The theme of the meeting was Traditional Dances.

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" My roots"

students preparing to perform the task "My roots" prepared a questionnaire and did the survey among our students. They analyzed the results of surveys and created a PPT presentation on migration of our families.It was presented at a meeting in Turkey.

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Products Presentation

During the Comenius school club and English lessons were presented to students all existing products developed by the partner countries so that our students can compare our traditions and customs, the differences and similarities between countries

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the web page of our school

8 students , an ICT teacher and two teachers in charge with the project created a Comenius Page called Comenius Project on our school's website and we added pictures,activities or articles related to our visits to this page from time to time.

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meeeting via internet and penpals

The students chosen for the Project studies met with other students from the partner schools through their private e-mail addresses . The coordinators helped the students to communicate with each other and keep in touch.
A danish class and a Croatian class started to write letters to our comenius class. They used English while they were writing so it was a great experience for them to use English actively . They were much more eager to learn English.

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The Corner of Comenius

A teacher and 10 students prepared a comenius corner on the wall of school corridor. They presented the name and aims of our project,the partner countries etc. With the help of this board , we attracted the attention of our teachers, students and parents. We believe that that board was a good starting for the Project.

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the bookends

Two teachers and 25 students prepared handmade bookends to give as a present to the partner school teachers in the meeting of Denmark. The students drew and colored the pictures of tourist attractions of İstanbul on the bookends . Then , the bookends were stamped for being used for years. In addition to , we put the evil eye bead and tassel on the top of them . By that way , we introduced one of the Turkish culture to the other countries.

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slide show about Istanbul and Sultangazi

Our responsible teacher arranged visits to the historical places in our city. The students took the pictures of these places and then prepared a powerpoint presentation. This slide show is about İstanbul and Sultangazi where our school take place.

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The meeting in Denmark

Between the dates 25th-29th October 2012, the headmaster and two teachers went to Denmark for the first project meeting. The Danish students welcomed and accompanied us while visiting their school. We visited classes and observed the lessons.
Then we had the meeting. After the meeting , the Danish coordinator introduced us how a Danish eat sausage and then we ate like them . In the evening , we cooked Danish meals with all the partner teachers and ate all together .

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blessings ornament

Our comenius class and two teachers made blessing ornaments with the medicine bottles and legumes. They decorated them with colored clothing . We gave those ornaments as a gift to the partner teachers in the meeting of Croatia. We introduced one of the Turkish culture to them. We told them about the blessings ornament .They really liked .

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Traditional recipes

We thought about our menu with our comenius students and responsible teachers. Then , we decided to make ' Hünkar Beğendi , Lentil soup , and rice pudding ' .
Our students did a research on meals . They found the recipes and cooked all the meals . We took photos while they were cooking .

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The meeting in Croatia

Between the dates 17th-21st January 2013 , we visited Croatian team with the headmaster , a coadministrator and three teachers. The students welcomed us and then they made a short puppet show. After we visited the classes , we holded the meeting. In the meeting , each country presented their traditional meals .

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Traditional games

Totally , we made a questionnare to 120 students' parents and grandparents about their childhood games. Although our students are from different regions , we saw that the games were common . According to the results ;
Nine stones : 19
Blind man's buff : 19
Picking up the handkerchief : 18
Duck,duck,goose : 18
Dodgeball : 17
Leapfrog : 15
Long Donkey : 14
The rules of the games were told to the students and then they played the same games . While they were playing ,we took their pictures.

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The meeting in Italy

Between the dates 11th-15th April 2013 , we visited Italian team with two coadministrators and four teachers. We saw that there were three different school buldings and one headmaster . Also , there was a Turkish Erasmus student in the school. That was great . Students welcomed us and we visited classes. They sang Turkish songs . The students prepared traditional cookies for us . We came together for the meeeting and presented the games.

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What makes the children happy?

We surveyed the children between the ages 12-13 and 14.
According to the survey ;
12 years group : swimming ,doing exercises , spending time with family
13 years group : swimming , listening to music , spending time with family
14 years group : swimming ,going out with friends , going to the cinema
By using this information , we prepared a powerpoint presentation .
Because we couldnt go to Spain meeting , we didnt add meeting pictures.

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nursery rhymes

We surveyed our students parents,grandparents and our teachers . According to the survey ;
- let's go to bazaar
-wind up ,wind up ,wind up
-needle pricked , gave me pain
- neighbour neighbour
were the most popular nursery rhymes.
Wıth the help of nursery class students , secondary class students and teachers , we videotaped,took photos and prepared texts about nursery rhymes.
Because we didnt go to Ireland , we couldnt add the photos.

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The meeting in Bulgaria

Between the dates 21st-25th November 2013 , we visited Bulgarian team with a headmaster and three teachers.
The students welcomed us and we watched their shows.
we visited the classes . Then we came together for the meeting.

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Learning the nursery rhymes of the partner schools

Because we couldnt go to Ireland , we could take all the documents about nursery rhymes in Bulgaria. We brought the brochures to our students . We gave them time to memorize the rhymes. But they couldnt tell without text except English.

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The posters for Bulgaria

Our students prepared posters about their favourite places in istanbul. Some of them drew by themselves , some of them used pictures and told why they love that place. We brought these posters to Bulgaria in order to give Bulgarian pupils.

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Traditional dances

The folklore team of our school ( 4th-5th class students ) became the 1st in our district in 2013-2014 educatonal year. We shared the success of our students with the partner schools. The team consisted of 1 teacher and 28 students. We told a dance of them in English with the photos.
In addition , they watched the video record of the dance. All the partners wanted to see them when they came to İstanbul.

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The meeting in Poland

Between the dates 20th-24th March , we visited Poland with a coadministratrix and a teacher . The students welcomed us and then we watched their shows. After we visited the classes , we came together for the meeting.

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The meeting in Turkey

Betweeen the dates 24th-28th April 2014 , 24 teachers visited our school . our students welcomed them . We presented them some shows related to our culture .For example ; Hacivat and Karagöz , Henna night and some songs with bağlama . Then they visited our classes. We came together for the meeting. Each partner presented their works. We ate the lunch at the school with the traditional turkish meals. After the lunch , we offered them Turkish coffee . We sent off them accompanied by folklore team.

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Watching the parents the videos about the Comenius visits

The activities in our project were firstly watched by the parents of the students charged with the project. Our parents throughout the school were invited to attend meetings but some of them didn't come.

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The meeting in France

Between the dates 22nd-26th May 2013 , we visited French team with the headmaster , a coadministrator , a coadministratrix and 2 teachers . The students welcomed us in the school garden . Then,we visited the classes and did some activities with the children. We reviewed the pages of the magazine and we completed the missings.

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our magazine in the libraries

Our magazines were primarily distributed to public libraries , some university libraries , municipal libraries, including district national education directorate,all schools in our district by introducing our project and magazine.
Magazines were distributed for the benefit of students in Eyüp and Gaziosmanpaşa municipal libraries.In the other places,they were delivered to the authorities .Some people didnt allow us to take photo so we couldnt add their photos.

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European Pupils Closer Together Blog

The common website of our partnership: We upload all the work completed within each of the topics : PowerPoints about landmarks, recipes, playground games, what makes children happy, a typical school day, traditional dances, our roots.

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European Pupils Closer Together Madmagz

An on-line magazine: this is the digital version of our final magazine.
The work was shared by each partner collating the partners' work for a certain topic and creating the pages (pictures & text) for the collaborative magazine.

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Concert

The concert was held in our school to celebrate the meeting with our guests from France, Northern Ireland, Denmark, Croatia, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey.
Many students from our school danced and sung eagerly.

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Exhibitions

For all the time we have been participarting in the project in our school there were organised different exhibitions. They were associated with the themes of the project, with the participant countries, with traditional Bulgarian objects and customs.

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Printing the project's magazine

The results of our partnerships can be used by every teacher, pupil or person wishing to research information or support for learning on the life of the children in Europe :
- landmarks of the 8 countries involved
- recipes
- playground games rules
- children's happiness
- nursery rhyme
- a typical day
- traditional dances
- our roots and the migrations on 3 generations.
We sent a project's magazine to the
District "Vrabnitsa", Department "Education".

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Bulgarian, English

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Pupils, Teachers, Trainers, Educators, Parents, Special Needs

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To be ordered to fokus_ss@abv.bg

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